And that is even then made as difficult and humiliating as possible. Often times its not even enough to live a decent life.

Yeah they also tried to erase darker skin-tones via “whitening” - thats something to keep in mind when certain people claim Brazil or other LatAm countries are post-racial colorblind utopias.

Yeah, thats closer to what I meant- More in the vain of “making your life miserable and enforcing austerity” than welfare queen.

Advances in LiDAR made it into an undeniable fact, also the stigma around taking oral traditions serious lessened. Especially Native North American Archeology is booming.

They despise the new explosion of research indicating that the Amazon had “complex” civilizations and that indigenous people were a boon for the condition of rainforest. I had my fair share of clashes with some Brazilians over this.

The welfare state is a concession of class harmony born out of the THREAT of revolution.

The job of communists today is to highlight its feeble nature and the eager which bourgeois democracy will cast it aside once the workers are no longer a political active force. People in the imperial core are more than willing to let the global south die for these concessions, so appealing to their humanity as the first vector of dismantling the cultural hegemony is a lost cause. And telling them you are going to take away their treats is even worse.

Anti-imperialism is integral and cannot be left in the dust. At first making them aware that the gains of their forebears are not to last and cannot be regained in a permanent form, and that the ruling classes give them only crumbs of the surplus value they produce and therefore imperialism is not necessary for adequate conditions (the GDR did not need neocolonies or economic domination to give its populace a normal standard of life) - solidarity with the free peoples of this world will grow out from these seeds planted.